On the detail pages that follow (¬tabs
to left)
discover
how we manufacture each Monument sign to last;
including the use of CNC manufacturing,
structural-steel frames, rust-proof metal, high-end
automotive paint, high-impact plastics or strong
flexible-face materials, and most importantly,
sophisticated
protective coatings.
All our signs include these many hidden features, critically important to you but often ignored by competitors to lower their cost. We even add self-cleaning properties.

Photos of many varied sign
designs are interspersed on the detail pages tabbed
on the left.

The Signs Manufacturing On-Location Sales Team's Personalized Service

No matter what types of signs you are interested in, our sales team, consisting of 11 highly-trained individuals, is at your beck and call.

Let us meet with you in your office, or at your new signs location, or home, or anywhere.

You will probably have a firm quotation for what you want during our meeting; certainly no more than a day later.

Visit Our Unique Sign Lighting Laboratory and Showroom

Unique in the entire sign industry, Signs Manufacturing™ built an 85’ by 50’ (over 4,000 sq ft) indoor sign lighting laboratory for testing the longevity, visibility, and effectiveness of all the lighted signs we manufacture. The Laboratory is open to the public, for FREE.

Don't buy a sign from a drawing, a slick website, or photo-shopped pictures, when you can actually see and compare real signs.

Thousands of visitors have learned about sign design, materials,
construction, lighting; and their effect on a business.

We
invite you to also observe all other types of signage, viewing them up close as well as from a distance, under varying light conditions (and stay out of the weather while doing so!)

Monument signs.

Neon and LED monument wall-wash accent lighting.

Computer-controlled full-color, programmable, monument lighting.

Pylon signs.

Pole signs.

Cabinet signs, fluorescent, HID, or LED lighted.

Pinlights™ signs.

Routed sign faces for all types of signs.

Digitally printed and cut vinyl decorated sign faces for all types of signs.

How will shadows affect my sign's readability during the day? Should the wall behind my sign be light or dark colored? Would a different type of sign look better on my brick wall? Should I consider a routed sign face with push-through letters?

Don't buy a sign from a drawing, a slick website, or photo-shopped pictures, when you can actually see and compare real signs.

Live Showroom Demonstrations of Products that Improve Your Signs

Sunsational™ Engineering

NASA's Ceramic Vacuum Microsphere Coating

Solarguard™ Protective Coatings

Signlux™ Paint Systems

Solar Finishes™ Bright Reflective White

Lumabrite™

Vandal-Resistant Coatings

Flexible Sign Face Installation Methods

Lighting Options

No one else can offer you this unique opportunity. Be sure to take advantage.

Your business will be better because you do.

If you don't visit it could cost you thousands in sales every year.

Can you afford not to?

"I almost made a huge mistake by not listening to you and visiting your showroom prior to buying my sign. I thought I knew what I wanted, after listening to so many salespeople...boy, was I wrong. My vision of the sign did not jibe with what it would really turn out to be, even after viewing so many drawings. It was obvious the moment I entered the showroom. If I had stuck to my guns my sign would have been a disaster. I would have wasted a lot of money."

Cecil Drake, Drake Communications

Showroom Specials

Sometimes it really pays to shop.

As an additional enticement to coax you into our showroom, and also smooth our manufacturing flow, we periodically have limited Specials only available "in-store;" even unannounced to our sales team.

They are based on opportunities in our production scheduling. If we tell our salespeople in advance they collectively sell too many, causing other problems!

Specials are always for a specific type of custom-built sign with a large variety of available options, but a very limited quantity, and first-come-first-served.

Guaranteed Highest
Quality...Guaranteed Lowest
Price™

As
detailed below, and on the pages that follow, everything
will be done to make your sign look better, and last
longer...Guaranteed.

Signs Manufacturing™ also guarantees that our price
will be the lowest price you can obtain on the products
described in this website; now or anytime during the next
90 days.

If you are
offered a lower price by someone else we will match that
lower price PLUS give you 10% of the difference.

"Fifteen years ago you made a lighted sign for me. It STILL looks new, but finally needs electrical service..."

Lawrence Badger, M.D.

Adding Motion to a Stationary Sign

We can take your normally static sign, with a fixed message, and add
movement using our programmable LEDs. Different speeds, "frames" if you
prefer more subtle movement, multiple colors, etc. We can even have it
programmable so that you can change the colors of the LEDs!

As an added
effect, you can program the moving LEDs separately from the rest of the
sign. So, using the video above as an example, they could have the rotating
record be green on St. Patrick's Day!

If you would like to see if an LED sign is will be beneficial to
your business, and how much it will cost,
Contact Us for a free, no obligation quote and analysis of your
business, projected increase in sales (based on Small Business
Administration numbers), traffic counts in your area and the cost of
a new sign.

Why Buy Factory-Direct from a State-Licensed Company?

Why not buy from a Sign Dealer (also called a Sign Broker or a Sign Store?)

Would you give a car dealer $10,000 and tell him to buy you the best car
he can for the money, sight unseen (or from a drawing?) Don’t you think you would get the car that made
him
the most?

Do you think you
could meet your needs asking for the cheapest car he can buy?

Why would a sign dealer (sign broker or sign store) be any different? Remember, they are
merely buying a sign from a manufacturer to resell to you, usually to resemble a
drawing, making the most money they can.

You need to know
ALL of the details on how your sign will be manufactured, and how it will be installed.
It needs to meet YOUR needs, not the seller’s profit goals. What is he
telling the manufacturer you don't need?

Believing “...a sign is a sign” gets you a Yugo instead of a Cadillac.
Remember the Yugo? They didn’t last very long, either.

Also, most sign dealers, sign brokers and sign stores cannot legally install
or service an electric sign. Ask to see their license.

Ask to see a manufacturer's license also. A few are not licensed to do electrical work, either, they also have to hire other companies to install the signs they make.

Now, who provides the warranty? The manufacturer, the installer, the
salesman, anyone? If the sign was installed illegally
do you think they'll honor their warranty? Did they REALLY obtain your
City sign permit? Is the sign even safe?

As a large, both UL and ETL listed manufacturer, our name is on all our signs. Just like you,
we can't afford to have a bad sign destroy our business. We have to care.
Particularly with our Lifetime Warranty*.

The Value of “Listed" Signs

Virtually ALL cities, as well as the State of Texas, adopt the National Electric Code as law.

The National Electric Code (NEC) requires that for electrical, structural, and installation safety all electrical signs be "Listed" (tested and labelled with an appropriate Listing Mark.)

Certification (testing and labelling) organizations acceptable in the USA to test to the multitude of Standards signs are required to meet are determined by OSHA.

For you the Listing Mark is insurance. It means that the sign has been tested to insure that it is structurally and electrically safe, and will be installed properly. You benefit from the knowledge that it is not solely us telling you that our signs are safe, this is what the testing laboratories and the US Government says also.

Will your sign be tested and approved for safe use in a Wet (Outdoor) location? Not if it’s not Listed!

Underwriters Laboratories (“UL” Listing Mark) and Intertek (“ETL” Listing Mark – originally Edison Testing Laboratory founded by Thomas Edison) are the premier certification organizations and 80% of all things electrical are tested by them.

If the sign you are purchasing does not have a ETL or UL Listing Mark label the sign is probably not legal to install, anywhere in Texas. There are a few local city ordinance exceptions.

Buy carefully.

Intertek is over twice the size of UL, and has a greater global presence. UL is the largest in the USA. We have both companies test and apply Listing Marks to various signs.

We are the third oldest ETL Listed sign company in Texas. ( File #4007685) (One of the two older companies makes lighted scoreboards, the other makes lighted office door signs.)

There are many sign companies that pretend to be Listed, but are not!

Incidentally, ISO (International Organization of Standardization) Standards, such as ISO 9001, are NOT electrical Listings (similar to a UL or ETL Listing) that allow a sign to be installed in Texas. That said, components in our electronic signs also meet ISO 9001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and RoHS standards.

Underwriter’s Laboratory and Intertek do NOT judge the appearance, appeal, or the longevity of a product. This is why our many years of experience serving international, national, regional and local customers, and our investment so that we can apply the knowledge we’ve gained, will give you a superior product which will impress your customers for years to come.

Summary - Monument Signs In a Nutshell

The
Special Features and Benefits of Signs Manufacturing Corporation's Monument Signs

Delayed-Deposit Billing™ - Significantly reduced initial billing to help you control your cash-flow.

Free Grand Opening Package* - We want you to be successful; here's another way we're helping. A free "Coming Soon" and "Grand Opening" banner with your name on it, and free "store" hours lettered on your door. *Minimum order required.

Construction

For
strength, durability, and appearance your
illuminated signs will be constructed of aluminum
(#3003, H14 - not the "soft" aluminum used by some)
covering a welded structural-steel inner frame.

Large metal
areas will be reinforced to prevent "oil-canning".

The
structural-steel frame inside the sign is separately
painted before the skins are installed; important to
prevent rust stains later.

Our signs are
properly engineered to withstand the winds of North
Texas (100 m.p.h.); signs attached to poles are
welded, not bolted, in place.

Certified Welding

We employ
Certified Welders. Horizontal, vertical, and
overhead.

We are
virtually the only sign company in the Dallas/Fort
Worth Metroplex employing certified welders.

The Importance of
Sign Thickness

The
thickness of a sign does more than impart a more
prominent importance to a sign, it affects the
graphics.

The minimum allowable thickness
of a sign depends on the type of internal lighting
and the type and size of the sign face.

Lighting and sign face types
will be discussed later.

The larger the sign face the
thicker a properly made sign cabinet must be.

It is very important that the
sign be thick enough that the lighting in the sign
does not show as “hot spots” or “zebra striping” on
the face of your sign. Either of these makes
your sign look “cheap” no matter what its cost.
In some instances these can be so bad that a sign is
not readable at night. You’ve seen them.

All
of this makes the use of extruded aluminum sign
frames problematic in building a quality sign, to
say nothing about a strong sign (no structural steel
inner frame) since extrusions are only available for
limited cabinet depths; however some sign companies
continue to attempt to do so. Signs Manufacturing™ does not use extruded cabinets
precisely for these reasons.

We calculate what is required
to make a proper and impressive sign for you, and
then we build it.

It is more expensive to do the
job right, but what is the value of a “cheap” sign
that gives potential customers a negative impression
of your business?

The Importance of
Retainer Width

Equally important to the
appearance of the sign is the width of the retainer
(the ring of metal around the sign face that covers
the mechanism that holds the sign face in
the cabinet.)

This border
plays a very important role in the apparent quality
of your sign, and both size and color must be
considered in the overall design.

This
makes the use of pre-made extruded aluminum sign
frames undesirable.

Tabs to other components of
a Monument sign are listed down the left side of
this page.

Be sure to
select the tab "Sign
Buyer's Check List" to the left.
This is a tool for your use to insure that
quotations you receive are for the same sign!
Insist that your bidders check-mark each line, then
sign the document when they give you their quote.

If you know all the details of the sign you wish to purchase, and desire to
buy it right now, click the following link to go to our online
Monument Sign Purchase Page.

Free Factory Tour

Come and see the array of equipment
and tools, and the facility dedicated to making good
signs.

Our professional staff will usually have exact quotations, and exact scale
drawings of your signs installed on your building or property ready for you
the same day we meet with you. (Much faster than the 2 1/2 week average in
our industry.)

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